These days, you’d be hard-pressed to open a news app, turn on the TV, or check your social media feeds without coming across a story about how the opioid epidemic is affecting families across the United States. From profiles of … Read more
Photographer Graham MacIndoe Photographer Graham MacIndoe left his native Scotland in 1992 to make it in New York. He worked for outlets such as The New York … Read more
An associate of Erica Garner created a firestorm by doing something editors and producers do every day: use race to help decide who gets to tell an important story. It’s just that the Garner request was blunt while race and … Read more
Shereen Marisol Meraji kicked off an episode of “Code Switch,” a podcast taglined “Race and Identity Remixed,” with a confession: “My mom’s Puerto Rican; my dad’s Iranian. And I, too, suffer from racial imposter syndrome.” Meraji went … Read more
While 2017 was the year native advertising grew up as a stable revenue source for news, 2018 should be the year the journalism industry establishes clear ethical standards for sponsored content. Startups, legacy media, and even nonprofit … Read more
Social media platforms used to be a place to discover interesting people far away, to get hints of breaking news, to connect with your audience, and even a tool for democracy. They could still be all of those things. But … Read more
Two things keep happening and probably will continue in 2018: News outlets will continue producing in-depth Trumpland stories; critics will keep slamming them for it. Some of that criticism is warranted, given that the media have decided that a small … Read more
In October 2015, I found myself in a neon blue rental car in Janesville, Wisconsin, driving slowly every several hours past a red brick Georgian revival in a historic district called Courthouse Hill. The house belonged to Representative Paul D. Read more
In a recent Yale University lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin (NF ’13) explored a fraught issue many arts critics and their editors face in today’s polarized cultural environment: Where to draw the line between coverage of … Read more
Robert Snell, an investigative reporter for The Detroit News, was in a Detroit federal courthouse reviewing court records for another story when he came across an unsealed affidavit. It was for a search warrant, which seemed … Read more